EMC supremo Joe Tucci has sent an open letter to Data Domain staff saying their company has an exciting future inside EMC - which has lots of great takeover stories to tell, unlike a certain other company.
EMC is trying to take over Data Domain and its market-leading target deduplication products with an all-cash $30/share $1. …

I'm confused about big finance...

> it is a pity perhaps that EMC shares are not included in the bid so that Data Domain stockholders can share in that success instead of pocketing EMC's $30/share and foregoing it.

Why can't Data Domain shareholders just spend that $30 on buying EMC shares? Wouldn't that be the same?

For that matter, if NetApp wins, why can't Data Domain shareholders just sell their NetApp shares instantly and lock in their profit? Of course if they all did that then NetApp's stock price would dive, but a few of them could do that.